Ekaterina Dmitrievna Troshchenko

Background

Ekaterina Dmitrievna Troshchenko was born on November 18, 1902, in Kyiv, Ukraine.

Education

Ekaterina Dmitrievna studied at the literary department of the historical and ethnological faculty of Moscow State University (1925-1930).

Career

Ekaterina Dmitrievna worked as a professional literary critic since 1929 (the magazine Oktyabr, Na literaturnom postu, Krasnaya nov, and others). She arrived in Voronezh together with her husband in the fall of 1939.

Ekaterina Dmitrievna taught Russian language and literature in secondary school. Moreover, she gave lectures on the history of Soviet literature at the Voronezh State Pedagogical University. Ekaterina Troshchenko took an active part in the life of the local writers' organization, tutored young authors.

Her works were published in the Voronezh newspapers, in the almanac Literaturnyj Voronezh (1940-1941). She left with her husband in Saratov in the fall of 1941, where she worked at the editorial office of the Kommunist newspaper. She was withdrawn to Moscow to lead the literary-critical department in the newspaper Literatura i iskusstvo.

Connections

Spouse:

Vladimir Dneprov